Mark Twain Quotes, Appreciation Quotes, Writing Quotes

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

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Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

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We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

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We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.

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Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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Comparison is the death of joy.

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The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

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There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

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Human beings are the only creatures who blush - or who need to.

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Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

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The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

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It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

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All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

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